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- Condition
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- 9781451625370
- ISBN
- 1451625375
- Binding
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- Book Title
- Hole at the Bottom of the Sea : the Race to Kill the Bp Oil Gusher
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Science, History
- Topic
- Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, General, Petroleum
- Item Weight
- 11.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1451625375
ISBN-13
9781451625370
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109023069
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hole at the Bottom of the Sea : the Race to Kill the Bp Oil Gusher
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, General, Petroleum
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A brilliant expose of what occurred behind the scene. The readers will be enthralled. Anyone who is an energy user must read this book. That means everyone since it is hard to live without consuming energy." --Greg McCormack- Former Director of the Petroleum Extension service at the University of Texas, "Achenbach lives up to his promises to make the disaster 'into a tale that everyone can comprehend,' with fluid, often Spartan prose and a candid tone. . . ." -- Los Angeles Times, "If I want to find out what's just happened, I'll switch on the radio. If I want to find out why it happened, I'll read Joel Achenbach. He's the best explainer alive." --Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The Washington Post and author of The Fiddler In the Subway, "Briskly informative and even-handed. . . . A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea will not make anyone feel better about the BP spill. But with economic and political pressure on to resume deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, it's a book anyone who lives along its shores needs to read." -- St. Petersburg Times, Advance Praise for A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea "After all the spilled oil and spilled ink, this book stands as the most enthralling tale of the interminable Gulf drilling disaster of 2010. Achenbach has a rare talent for making the alien world of offshore oil accessible. Telling a harrowing story of humans wrestling with a technological and environmental crisis beyond their control, he gives us an inside perspective on torturous decision-making under the watchful eyes of a nation." --Tyler Priest, University of Houston, Senior Policy Analyst, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, "A gripping, insightful, sobering and at times heroic tale of the struggle to find a solution to a technological problem whose precise source is still a mystery." -- The Globe and Mail (Canada), "A high-stakes adventure story, masterfully told." --Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God and Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, eoeA gripping, insightful, sobering and at times heroic tale of the struggle to find a solution to a technological problem whose precise source is still a mystery.e -- The Globe and Mail (Canada), "Here's what really happened at the spill -- a compelling look behind the curtain. Joel Achenbach, one of America's best journalists, digs up thousands of previously undisclosed documents to weave a deeply human story of failure, heroism, and the high price of oil addiction." --David Von Drehle, author Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, "Achenbach lives up to his promises to make the disaster 'into a tale that everyone can comprehend,' with fluid, often Spartan prose and a candid tone. . . ." -- Los Angeles Times, eoeBriskly informative and even-handed. . . . A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea will not make anyone feel better about the BP spill. But with economic and political pressure on to resume deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, ite(tm)s a book anyone who lives along its shores needs to read.e -- St. Petersburg Times, eoeAchenbach lives up to his promises to make the disaster e~into a tale that everyone can comprehend,e(tm) with fluid, often Spartan prose and a candid tone. . . ." -- Los Angeles Times
Dewey Decimal
363.738/28
Synopsis
The struggle to kill the BP Macondo gusher in the Gulf of Mexico is the Apollo 13 of our time. This is the story of the nightmare well and of the men who conquered it in dangerous waters. It is a technological thriller for the ages. It was a technological crisis in an alien realm: a blown-out oil well in mile-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. For the engineers who had to kill the well, this was like Apollo 13, a crisis of untold danger and an unprecedented challenge. A suspense story, a mystery, a human tragedy: Achenbach has written a cautionary tale that doubles as a technological thriller.
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